Is that the time? Is that really the time? Or more accurately, is that really the date? June. A week in already and I haven’t posted a single thing since the end of April. Shame. On. Me. No excuses – plenty of reasons. Mostly too boring to share but I shall now bombard you with stuff and I will start as I ended with a photo challenge – this one is called Vivid and this little fellow who I captured near Le Rouget before taking my long absence seems so vivid that you would think I had painted him. Except I can neither paint nor draw except with words so I am not guilty of that crime at least. Enjoy him – he stayed stock still for the camera and The Bean was similarly statue like in her shock at finding him. He is a he, by the way – if he was a she he would not have that beauteous coloured throat. Perhaps Bruce Jenner transgendering from male to female Caitlyn and posing in corsets for Vanity Fair should take note – we girls generally don’t get the most exotic plumage and thinking like a woman should not at all be to do with looking sexual.